New Delhi: India's Sports Minister Jitender Singh on Thursday said that the roadmap for India's return to the Olympic fold has been chalked out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and it will take 30 to 60 days to complete the entire process.
The Sports Minister, who met the IOC officials in Lausanne on Wednesday, said, "The roadmap has been decided by IOC to bring India back into the Olympic fold. Our meeting went off well and IOA, IOC and the Indian government are all on the same page ... It is not my victory but a win for the country, sportspersons and all of us," Singh said.
"The IOC has agreed to work with the Indian government for the new proposed National Sports Bill. The first draft of it is likely by June 30," he added.
Singh was very clear about the role of National Sports Federations (NSF), stating that they need to exhibit transparency. "We told the IOC that we do not want to interfere in the matters of NSFs. We respect their freedom. But since tax payers' money is involved, we would like them to be more transparent. Because of the internal squabbles of NSFs, why should sportspersons suffer?"...
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08:28 AM, May 16, 2013
Lausanne: It's status quo for the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday refused to lift its suspension until free and fair elections are held. The IOC Wednesday held a meeting with the Indian delegation headed by the Minister of State for Sports Jitendra Singh and representatives from the National Sports Federations (NSF), who are also members of the suspended IOA. A representative of the...
01:03 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday asked the IOC to "assist" in bringing India back into the Olympic fold and said that the country is at "crossroads" as far as sports administration was concerned. "We are at the crossroads of change in the way India Sports is administered in India. We come to you with a common understanding. We hope the IOC will also assist us in bringing...
06:56 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: In a dramatic development, the Indian Olympic Association's acting president V K Malhotra and IOC member in India Randhir Singh on Thursday pulled out of the crucial meeting with the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne next week, apparently miffed with the world body's changed stance. Barely six days before the May 15 meeting to find a way for India's return to the Olympic fold, the pull-out of these...
04:50 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Falling in line with the government's Sports Code, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) has amended its constitution by fixing the term and the age limit of its office bearers. The sports ministry has asked the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the National Sports Federations (NSFs) to be on the same page by adopting the Sports Code ahead of next month's meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)....
12:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh expressed disappointment over the Indian Olympic Association holding the Sports bill responsible for the country's suspension from the Olympic movement, terming it as "very, very unfortunate". "I am deeply shocked and upset after reading the contents of the letter. It is delayed tactics. As far as the Sports bill is concerned, priority of the government is to get the bill passed by both the...
10:12 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Taking action under its controversial Sports Code, the government has asked the Secretary General of Paralympic Committee of India, Rathan Singh to step down from his post on the ground that he has attained the age of 70. The age and tenure guidelines of the Sports Code -- which has been hotly contested by the Indian Olympic Association and few National Sports Federations -- provides that a person...
06:12 PM, Apr 08, 2013
IOA president V K Malhotra said that he will write to the Sports Ministry and IOC to give the IOA more time to have a meaningful discussion over the differences. ...
01:58 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The IOC made it clear that the current IOA dispensation under Abhay Singh Chautala will have no role in the meeting. ...
07:14 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Chautala said the issue of national body's suspension by the IOC is likely to be resolved in two months. ...
05:28 PM, Jan 20, 2013
The IABF has been banned, both by AIBA and the Indian sports ministry, due to a faulty electoral process. Most of all, the boxers will suffer. ...
12:27 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The best Olympics medal haul ever by India was undone by IOA bosses who led to the association's suspension. ...
12:59 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Mumbai: Athletics Federation of India president Adille Sumariwala on Wednesday said the IOC's suspension of the IOA is a "short-term" problem which will be resolved in a couple of months. "This is a short-term problem. I think the less we debate on this issue the better it is. This is a short-term problem which will be sorted out soon. It will be done in a couple of months. There is...
06:39 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Wednesday said it was confident that issues between International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) can be resolved in time and promised steps to ensure participation of Indian sportspersons in international sporting events. Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) that government is working to resolve the issue soon so that Indian...
02:38 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Olympic Council of Asia has barred officials of the suspended IOA from participating in OCA events, but said "as a special case" Indian atheltes will be allowed to take part in the OCA Games, including the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon under the IOC flag. The OCA's decision came in the wake of the suspension imposed on IOA by the International Olympic Committee earlier this month. "Taking...
06:07 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Kolkata: Five-time world champion chess Grand Master Viswanathan Anand on Monday hoped the conflict between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will be sorted out before the 2016 Olympics. "We still have a couple of years to solve the problem, so I am not too concerned," said Anand, when asked about the IOC deciding to suspend the IOA for not following the IOC charter in...
10:17 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Chess legend Vishwanathan Anand is not too concerned about the suspension imposed on the IOA by International Olympic Committee as he feels the ongoing dispute is "more of a legal argument" which can be sorted out in due course of time. The World Champion heaved a sigh of relief about the fact that there isn't many international sporting activities lined up for Indian athletes in the upcoming months,...
07:45 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Aligarh: Former India hockey captain Zafar Iqbal said the country's prominent athletes would write to the International Olympic Committee seeking its help for drawing up a blueprint for resurrecting sports here. Iqbal, who was here as the Chief Guest at the prize giving ceremony of the North Zone Inter University Cricket Tournament, told PTI that the entire sports community in India was deeply saddened by the recent events leading to...
11:20 AM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Archery Association of India (AAI) on Friday hit out at the government for derecognizing the body, calling the decision "unconstitutional and arbitrary". Questioning the decision, AAI president Vijay Kumar Malhotra said Sports Ministry has no right to de-recognize the Association as "we have not violated any rule or law of the land and the decision is illegal". He said he was surprised at the Governments argument that...
07:25 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee has refused to recognise the elections conducted by the suspended Indian Olympic Association, saying the "so-called" office-bearers have no legitimacy. The IOA went ahead and conducted its elections despite being suspended by the IOC and the world body has now even threatened legal action. "The suspended Indian Olympic Association is no longer entitled to exercise any activity or right conferred upon it by the...
02:19 PM, Dec 07, 2012
